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PRATIK AGARWAL [email protected] [email protected] http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ ~ agarwal Education Autonomous Systems Lab, University of Freiburg, Germany August 2012-April 2015 PhD in Computer Science Thesis: Robust graph based localization and mapping. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. CGPA: 7.21/9.0 (3.74/4.0) August 2010-April 2012 M.S.E in Computer Science Engineering Manipal University, India. CGPA: 9.15/10 August 2006-July 2010 Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science Engineering Patents [1] Pratik Agarwal and Jiajun Zhu, “Estimating multi-vehicle motion characteristics by finding stable reference points”, US Patent number 8,886,387. Issued on November 11, 2014. [2] Pratik Agarwal, Jiajun Zhu, Dimitri Dolgov, “Methods and Devices for Determining Movements of an Object in an Environment”, US Patent number 8,989,944. Issued on March 24, 2015. [3] Jiajun Zhu and Pratik Agarwal, “Methods and Systems for Object Detection using Multiple Sen- sors”, US Patent number 9,098,753. Issued on August 4, 2015. Publications Journal Articles [1] Pratik Agarwal, Wolfram Burgard and Cyrill Stachniss, “A Survey of Geodetic Approaches to Mapping and the Relationship to Graph-Based SLAM”, Robotics and Automation Magazine, September 2014. [2] Edwin Olson and Pratik Agarwal, “Inference on networks of mixtures for robust robot mapping”, The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), June 2013 Peer-Reviewed Conference Articles [1] Andreas Lars Wachaja, Pratik Agarwal, Mathias Zink, Miguel Reyes Adame, Knut Moeller, Wolfram Burgard “Navigating Blind People with a Smart Walker ”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2015 [2] Pratik Agarwal, Wolfram Burgard and Luciano Spinello, “Metric Localization using Street View”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2015 [3] Bahram Behzadian, Pratik Agarwal, Wolfram Burgard and Diego Tipaldi, “Monte Carlo Localization in Hand-Drawn Maps”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2015 [4] Pratik Agarwal, Giorgio Grisetti, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Luciano Spinello, Wolfram Burgard and Cyrill Stachniss, “Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Covariance Scaling for Robust Map Optimization Under Bad Initial Estimates”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2014.

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PRATIK AGARWAL

[email protected]@informatik.uni-freiburg.dehttp://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~agarwal

EducationAutonomous Systems Lab, University of Freiburg, Germany August 2012-April 2015PhD in Computer ScienceThesis: Robust graph based localization and mapping.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. CGPA: 7.21/9.0 (3.74/4.0) August 2010-April 2012M.S.E in Computer Science Engineering

Manipal University, India. CGPA: 9.15/10 August 2006-July 2010Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science Engineering

Patents

[1] Pratik Agarwal and Jiajun Zhu, “Estimating multi-vehicle motion characteristics by finding stablereference points”,US Patent number 8,886,387. Issued on November 11, 2014.

[2] Pratik Agarwal, Jiajun Zhu, Dimitri Dolgov, “Methods and Devices for Determining Movements ofan Object in an Environment”,US Patent number 8,989,944. Issued on March 24, 2015.

[3] Jiajun Zhu and Pratik Agarwal, “Methods and Systems for Object Detection using Multiple Sen-sors”,US Patent number 9,098,753. Issued on August 4, 2015.

PublicationsJournal Articles

[1] Pratik Agarwal, Wolfram Burgard and Cyrill Stachniss, “A Survey of Geodetic Approaches to Mappingand the Relationship to Graph-Based SLAM”, Robotics and Automation Magazine, September 2014.

[2] Edwin Olson and Pratik Agarwal, “Inference on networks of mixtures for robust robot mapping”,The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), June 2013

Peer-Reviewed Conference Articles

[1] Andreas Lars Wachaja, Pratik Agarwal, Mathias Zink, Miguel Reyes Adame, Knut Moeller, Wolfram Burgard“Navigating Blind People with a Smart Walker ”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on IntelligentRobots and Systems (IROS) 2015

[2] Pratik Agarwal, Wolfram Burgard and Luciano Spinello, “Metric Localization using Street View”,IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2015

[3] Bahram Behzadian, Pratik Agarwal, Wolfram Burgard and Diego Tipaldi, “Monte Carlo Localization inHand-Drawn Maps”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2015

[4] Pratik Agarwal, Giorgio Grisetti, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Luciano Spinello, Wolfram Burgard and Cyrill Stachniss,“Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Covariance Scaling for Robust Map Optimization UnderBad Initial Estimates”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2014.

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[5] Pratik Agarwal, Wolfram Burgard and Cyrill Stachniss “Helmert’s and Bowie’s Geodetic MappingMethods and Their Relationship to Graph-Based SLAM”, IEEE International Conference on Roboticsand Automation (ICRA) 2014.

[6] Pratik Agarwal, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Luciano Spinello, Cyrill Stachniss and Wolfram Burgard, “Robust MapOptimization using Dynamic Covariance Scaling”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics andAutomation (ICRA) 2013.Best student paper finalist.

[7] Pratik Agarwal and Edwin Olson, “Variable reordering strategies for SLAM”,IEEE/RSJ InternationalConference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2012

[8] Edwin Olson and Pratik Agarwal, “Inference on networks of mixtures for robust robot mapping”,Robotics Science and System (RSS) 2012Shortlisted for a special issue on the best papers from RSS.

[9] B. Sujith Kumar, Pratik Agarwal, P. Abhimanyu, Prem Bhargav and Dr. K. Madhava Krishna, “RoboCupSSL Team Description, IRL RC”, Emerging Research Trends in Artificial Intelligence (ERTAI-2010).

Workshops (Reviewed)[1] Andreas Wachaja, Pratik Agarwali, Miguel Reyes Adame, Knut Moller and Wolfram Burgard A Navigation

Aid for Blind People with Walking Disabilities, Workshop on Rehabilitation & Assistive Robotics:Bridging the Gap Between Clinicians and Roboticists. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on IntelligentRobots and Systems (IROS) 2014

[2] Miguel Reyes Adame, Andreas Wachaja, Pratik Agarwali, Knut Moller and Wolfram Burgard Developmentof a Smart Walker with a Vibrating Belt for Assisting Visually Impaired. BMT - BiomedicalTechnology/ Biomedical Engineering 2014

[3] Pratik Agarwal, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Luciano Spinello, Cyrill Stachniss and Wolfram Burgard “DynamicCovariance Scaling for Robust Robotic Mapping”, Workshop on robust and Multimodal Inference inFactor Graphs, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2013.

InternshipsGoogle Inc, Mountain View. October 2014-January 2015Intern at Google[x] with the self driving car team.

Google Inc, Mountain View. July-November 2013Intern at Google[x] with the self driving car team.

Microsoft Corporation, Seattle. May-July 2011Intern with the Bing Mobile team.

IIIT Robotics Research Lab, Hyderabad. Jan-June 2010Multiple Robot coordination for RoboCup Small Sized League.

Material Research and Testing, Berlin. June-July 2009Telepresence using Networked Data Turbine.

Stesalit Ltd, Kolkata Dec 2008-Jan 2009Simulating modules using Aardvark I2C/SPI interface.

Public Talks

[1] Metric Localization using Street View, IROS, October 2015, Hamburg, Germany.

[2] Robust Graph-Based Localization and mapping, May 2015, Center for AI and Research (CAIR) atDefence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Bangalore, India.

[3] Robust Graph-Based Localization and mapping, May 2015, International Institute of Information Tech-nology, Hyderabad, India.

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[4] Global Metrical Localization using Google Street View, October 2014, Field Robotics Center Seminar,Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

[5] Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Covariance Scaling for Robust Map Optimization Under BadInitial Estimates, ICRA, June 2014, Hong Kong.

[6] Helmert’s and Bowie’s Geodetic Mapping Methods and Their Relationship to Graph-BasedSLAM, ICRA, June 2014, Hong Kong.

[7] Robust Map Optimization using Dynamic Covariance Scaling, ICRA, May 2013. Karlruhe, Germany.

[8] Dynamic Covariance Scaling for Robust Robot Mapping, ICRA, Workshop on Factor Graphs, May2013. Karlruhe, Germany.

[9] Variable reordering strategies for SLAM, IROS, November 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal.

Bachelor and Master students supervised

[1] Mohammad Chit, Using Dual-Quaternions For Computing Maximum Likelihood Maps With Gra-dient Descent, Master Thesis, 2014.

[2] Michael Rudolph, Autonomous Landing of Multi-Rotors, Bachelor Thesis, 2014. Received the highestgrade.

[3] Lukas Germein, Terrain Classification based on Traffic Participants, Bachelor Thesis, 2014. Receivedthe highest grade.

Robotics related community serviceReviewer for:IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) 2013International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2013European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR) 2013IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2012 - 2015IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2012 - 2015

Reviewing the review process: An open review experiment for the robotics communityCo-organizer of the workshop at Robotics Science and Systems, 2015.

Professional ExperienceDoctoral research assistant at the University of Freiburg. August 2012-April 2015Research includes applying robotics to help visually impaired and physically disabled people, robust back-end SLAMoptimizers, computer-vision, multi-object multi-sensor tracking.

Graduate Student Research Assistant at the University of Michigan. Nov 2011-June 2012Worked on multi modal lidar scan matchers, robust slam capable of handling false loop closures and visual aliasing,variable reordering for non-linear SLAM techniques and autonomous planning and mapping for a nursing robot.

Navigation Team, Michigan Autonomous Aeronautical Vehicles (MAAV) Aug 2010-July 2012Responsible for Scan Matching, state estimation and autonomous planner for an in-house quadrotor.

Position of ResponsibilityTechnical Head of IEEE, Student Chapter, Manipal. 2008-2009Organized and taught in various C++ basic and advanced workshops. Taught data structures to freshmen andsophomores, conducted IQ based competitions, Programming contests, Tech Talks on search Engines.

Core Member, Management Committee, Red-X Social-Adventure Club, Manipal University. 2006-2008As a member of RED-X, organized treks and trips for more than 200 people, taught basic computers to underprivi-leged school children.